Creating a Difference Approach to Telling the News

AUTHOR(S)

Daniloff, Nicholas

PUB. DATE

March 2003

SOURCE

Nieman Reports;Spring2003, Vol. 57 Issue 1, p99

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Presents an article on a journalism professor who teaches about the freedom of speech at Uzbek State World Languages University in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Details of an activity he conducted about the authoritarian policies in the state; Advantages of using role-playing in teaching; Background on the media in the state.

ACCESSION #

9450801

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